Comments on: Why We Can’t Publish Scraped CrystalEye Data Yet….And Science Commons Declare a Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data http://www.chemspider.com/blog/why-we-cant-publish-scraped-crystaleye-data-yetand-science-commons-declare-a-protocol-for-implementing-open-access-data.html Building Community for Chemists Tue, 14 May 2013 21:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Gary Martin http://www.chemspider.com/blog/why-we-cant-publish-scraped-crystaleye-data-yetand-science-commons-declare-a-protocol-for-implementing-open-access-data.html/comment-page-1#comment-9676 Gary Martin Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:01:40 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=310#comment-9676 It would appear that Jeffrey has hit the proverbial nail on the head with his comment,

“…many data sources do not share their information as it is core to their business model and intellectual property.”

Would the ACS rather you were subscribing to some service that they provide to access information provided to them by authors that they have copyrighted?

]]> By: Jeffrey Halbstein-Harris http://www.chemspider.com/blog/why-we-cant-publish-scraped-crystaleye-data-yetand-science-commons-declare-a-protocol-for-implementing-open-access-data.html/comment-page-1#comment-9668 Jeffrey Halbstein-Harris Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:04:10 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=310#comment-9668 I find this topic quite interesting and wonder about the intention of “data owners”. In my world of HealthCare Quality Improvement data are at times not published for the benefit of society, for example: protected individual health information. Other cases include the issues of safety e.g. not releasing information that could be misused and cause harm to a patient.

Unfortunatly, many data sources do not share their information as it is core to their business model and intellectual property. This case happens so often that critical variables necessary for the evaluation of health-care outcomes are not available. So…for the protection of individual rights to ownership or coproarte profit; the creative persons in the private sector are not able to create and test new products for the evaluation of cause and effect.

What a mess our egos create!

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